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it is not just nsa intercepts. it is informant information, ation with wiretaps in one case and using them for a second case. that a large database of phone records. phoneer they get a records for someone suspected of involvement in drugs or gang involvement from the dea, they put all of those timbers into one giant database and use that information to compare different cases. all of the collection seems legitimate in terms of being court ordered. what troubled some critics is the fact they are hiding that information from drug defendant to face trial. the problem with that is, if these defendants won't know about some potentially that mayry information affect their case and the right to a fair trial. >> explain exactly how this information is being hidden from judges, prosecutors, and sometimes defense attorneys as well. >> sure. just to give you an example, through any of these four different ways including the nsa intercepts, the dea's special operations division will send the information to a dea agent in the f
it is not just nsa intercepts. it is informant information, ation with wiretaps in one case and using them for a second case. that a large database of phone records. phoneer they get a records for someone suspected of involvement in drugs or gang involvement from the dea, they put all of those timbers into one giant database and use that information to compare different cases. all of the collection seems legitimate in terms of being court ordered. what troubled some critics is the fact they are...
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, and read your statement from a former nsa employee and william binney who recently said the nsa is putting together dossiers on every u.s. citizen, listing who we have relations with, what our activities are. is there any truth to that and why do stories like this persists? it isn't true., we're not putting dossiers up on every u.s. citizen. in fact, we don't have a dossier on you. i have never seen one of your e- mails from an intelligence perspective or otherwise, actually. from my perspective, these are grossly out of the truth. they really are. to think we would be collecting on every u.s. person, one, that would be against the law for you and two, we get great oversight by all breaches of the government. i must have been bad when i was a kid. we get supervised by the defense department. o.ey see everything we do rea by the white house, by the congress, and by the court. so all branches of government can see what we're doing is correct. so my concern is that false statements like these seem to persist. you see them bounce around. it only hurts because people think, well, they m
, and read your statement from a former nsa employee and william binney who recently said the nsa is putting together dossiers on every u.s. citizen, listing who we have relations with, what our activities are. is there any truth to that and why do stories like this persists? it isn't true., we're not putting dossiers up on every u.s. citizen. in fact, we don't have a dossier on you. i have never seen one of your e- mails from an intelligence perspective or otherwise, actually. from my...
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the response of the nsa? >> it is truly shocking they are violating the surveillance laws thousands of times every year, effectively about seven times a day. in part because these laws are permissive. these aren't laws that impose meaningful restrictions. they essentially allow the nsa to collect vast amounts of information inside the united states and as we communicate internationally. the fact there are violating these very permissive laws is truly shocking. really disclosures undermine the intelligence community's primary defense of these programs, which is that there heavily regulated and overseeing. we know that is simply not true. congress is not been able to effectively oversee the nsa. now that we know the fisa court, the nsa is not able to -- in its own words, doesn't think it has the capacity to effectively oversee the nsa. the government has been claiming for years this is a regulated surveillance complex and in fact the fox has been guarding the hen house for far too long and it needs to stop. ,>
the response of the nsa? >> it is truly shocking they are violating the surveillance laws thousands of times every year, effectively about seven times a day. in part because these laws are permissive. these aren't laws that impose meaningful restrictions. they essentially allow the nsa to collect vast amounts of information inside the united states and as we communicate internationally. the fact there are violating these very permissive laws is truly shocking. really disclosures undermine...
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let's go back to march when senator ron wyden question james clapper about the nsa. >> does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir. not. does >> not wittingly. there are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly. >> that is what clapper said about the nsa in march. spencer ackerman, we have come a long way, or have we? where is this going right now? >> let's just back up. the reason why ron wyden even asked that question in public hearing in the first place was to go back to keep alexander, general alexander at a different hacker conference last year was asked that question in different form and he said it was hogwash, that it was simply no truth to the idea that the nsa was keeping what he called dossiers on lanes of americans. -- on millions of americans. clapper and the nsa and ultimately led widen out of frustration to ask clapper that question publicly. last week he referred to a culture of misinformation in the intelligence committee by senior intelligence officials, clapper, alexander and othe
let's go back to march when senator ron wyden question james clapper about the nsa. >> does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir. not. does >> not wittingly. there are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly. >> that is what clapper said about the nsa in march. spencer ackerman, we have come a long way, or have we? where is this going right now? >> let's just back up....
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we will have more on the nsa after headlines. scores of people are dead and hundreds are wounded following a weekend of violence in iraq. a series of bombings aimed at shiites killed dozens of people over the weekend. families were celebrating eid- al-fitr, which marks the end of ramadan. according to a private monitoring group, an al qaeda affiliate has claimed responsibility for the bombings. on sunday, at least seven people died. three u.s. soldiers died in afghanistan on sunday. the u.s. official said that they were killed by insurgents in paktia province. attorney general eric holder is set to unveil a key new policy aimed at curbing lengthy sentences for drug violations. the policy shift will bar prosecutors from noting the specific quantity of drugs involved when drafting cases for minor drug incidents. holder will also announce policies aimed at turning over crimes to state courts and expanding drug treatment as an alternative. has spokenatt damon against president obama's policy on drone strikes. there are a lot of thing
we will have more on the nsa after headlines. scores of people are dead and hundreds are wounded following a weekend of violence in iraq. a series of bombings aimed at shiites killed dozens of people over the weekend. families were celebrating eid- al-fitr, which marks the end of ramadan. according to a private monitoring group, an al qaeda affiliate has claimed responsibility for the bombings. on sunday, at least seven people died. three u.s. soldiers died in afghanistan on sunday. the u.s....
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nsa is drowningt obama in cash from the defense and intelligence industries. money from those industries. he then gets placed on the very committee that the church committee created in mid-1970s to exercise oversight over the agency and the community that basically ensures that his coffers are stuffed full of cash. of course he becomes a leading spokesperson for that agency and goes around offending everything they have done that thing wrong and there are vital and indispensable read that is the leading democrat on the committee. the thing he was asked about in terms of members of congress being locked from information, that is that my claim. members of congress came to me with his grievance and ask you to write about it. they gave me correspondence between themselves and the intelligence committee. what they're asking for was not sensitive information, but a sick things, things they read about in media cap such as the ruling by the fisa court in 2011 that much of what the nsa has been doing, spying on americans domestically, as a violation of the constitution
nsa is drowningt obama in cash from the defense and intelligence industries. money from those industries. he then gets placed on the very committee that the church committee created in mid-1970s to exercise oversight over the agency and the community that basically ensures that his coffers are stuffed full of cash. of course he becomes a leading spokesperson for that agency and goes around offending everything they have done that thing wrong and there are vital and indispensable read that is...
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is --mes reports the nsa according to the unnamed official, after the communications are scanned for keywords or other red flags, those that do not raise alarms are deleted. the entire process takes seconds . the practice is touched on in a document leaked by what edward snowden to the guardian about the nsa's powers under the 2008 foreign intelligence surveillance act. the document notes the nsa -- the revelations follow the announcement wednesday the president obama has canceled one-on-one talks with russian president vladimir putin early next month after the country granted temporary asylum to edward snowden. in a statement, the white house cited a lack of progress with russia on a number of issues, but acknowledged the decision on snowden was also a factor. obama will still attend the g 20 summit in st. petersburg. on "the tonight show" obama reacted to russia's announcement it would give snowden asylum for year. >> i was disappointed because even though we don't have an extradition treaty with them, traditionally, we have tried to respect if there is a lawbreaker or alleged lawb
is --mes reports the nsa according to the unnamed official, after the communications are scanned for keywords or other red flags, those that do not raise alarms are deleted. the entire process takes seconds . the practice is touched on in a document leaked by what edward snowden to the guardian about the nsa's powers under the 2008 foreign intelligence surveillance act. the document notes the nsa -- the revelations follow the announcement wednesday the president obama has canceled one-on-one...